US5053763A - Dual anode flat panel electrophoretic display apparatus - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to an electrophoretic display apparatus in general and more particularly to an electrophoretic display apparatus having a dual anode structure.
- EPID electrophoretic display
- This patent describes a typical electrophoretic display apparatus utilizing an XY matrix consisting of grid and cathode lines which are insulated one from the other and which are associated with an anode electrode and having the space between the grid and cathode lines and the anode electrode filled with an electrophoretic dispersion.
- the patent describes techniques for making such displays as well as suitable dispersions for use with such displays.
- an important object of the prior art is to provide an improved display with increased contrast, faster operating time, and more reliable performance.
- a particularly disturbing problem which occurs in electrophoretic displays results in the appearance of a bright "flash" while occurring over a relatively short period is perfectly visible.
- the "flash" appears disturbing to many individuals who view the display and is caused by the following phenomenon.
- the amount of pigment in the suspension is considerably greater than the pigment required to give a suitable background when the panel is in a HOLD condition.
- HOLD is known in the art, and essentially the electrophoretic panel is placed in a HOLD condition prior to writing the display. In this manner the HOLD condition is achieved when the anode is at a high positive voltage, the grid is at a low voltage, and the cathode is at a high voltage.
- the anode would be at a voltage for example of 200 volts with the grid at a lower voltage as for example -12 volts with the cathode at a high voltage which would be +15 volts.
- the display is in the so-called HOLD condition.
- This HOLD condition is implemented prior to the writing mode during which mode new information is written into the display.
- the excess pigment during the HOLD condition is at the surface of the anode which is at the highest potential with respect to any other of the electrodes.
- the anode is made negative and all the pigment leaves the anode and is at the surface of the grid and cathode.
- the anode for example, would be placed at --200 volts.
- all the pigment leaves the anode and is now at the surface of the grid and cathode accordingly.
- the cathode side of the flat display during the ERASE mode is considerably brighter than it is during the HOLD causing a bright "flash" to appear on the display even when the ERASE time is extremely short.
- the "flash” occurs between frames and may repeat every 20 to 30 milliseconds caused by the change in brightness between the HOLD and the ERASE mode. It is, of course, desirable to eliminate this bright "flash" so that the display appears more uniform and stable.
- an electrophoretic display of the type having a cathode matrix comprising a plurality of parallel lines arranged in a given direction, with a grid matrix insulated from said cathode matrix and comprising a plurality of parallel lines each perpendicular to said cathode lines to form an X-Y addressing matrix with a conventional anode electrode separated from said X-Y matrix with the space between said anode electrode and said X-Y matrix accommodating an electrophoretic dispersion including pigment particles suspended in a fluid, the improvement therewith of an additional anode electrode comprising a plurality of parallel lines each associated with and insulated from a respective grid line with said additional anode operative when biased to control the path of said pigment particles to and from said grid and cathode matrix and to allow excess pigment to remain at said conventional anode electrode.
- FIG. 1 is a cross sectional view of an electrophoretic display according to this invention.
- FIG. 2 is a cross sectional view of the display of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 3 is a front plan view of a typical grid line and also a configuration of a typical local anode line.
- FIG. 1 there is shown a cross sectional view of an electrophoretic display 10 constructed according to the teachings of this invention.
- the display 10 basically appears as prior art displays with the exception that there is an additional electrode 16 which will be designated as a local anode as compared to the remote anode 18.
- the remote anode 18 is the conventional anode associated with the prior art electrophoretic displays.
- the electrophoretic display as described in many of the prior art patents as above indicated has a viewing area which includes a bottom glass sheet 11. Disposed upon sheet 11 are a plurality of cathode lines 12. These cathode lines 12 are directed in the horizontal or vertical direction and are essentially parallel to one another to form a matrix or grid of lines. Separated from the cathode lines by means of a photoresist or insulator 13 is a plurality of grid lines 14.
- the grid lines are disposed transverse to the cathode lines and intersect each cathode line to provide an XY matrix arrangement whereby a typical pixel area is accessed by addressing a grid and cathode line and thereby providing a desired potential at the intersection between the two lines.
- This potential causes the migration of electrophoretic particles which are suspended in the electrophoretic suspension and which particle migrate from the grid and cathode structure to the anode 18.
- the anode 18 is a very thin layer of metal deposited upon a planar glass member 22 according to prior art teachings.
- FIG. 2 there is shown a side cross sectional view of the electrophoretic display.
- the catode lines 12 which are thin layers of ITO are deposited upon the glass substrate 11 with the grid lines 14 being perpendicular thereto and insulated from the cathode line by means of insulator layer 13.
- the thickness of the insulator areas as 13 and 15 is approximately 3 microns with the distance from the top of insulator 15 to the remote anode electrode 18 being about 7 mils.
- each grid line 14 is separated from a local anoe line 16 by means of an insulator layer 15.
- each of the grids is fabricated by utilizing deposited metal on an insulator whereby a top conductive area or contact area 30 is provided which conductive area 30 is above a bottom conductive area 31. Disposed between areas 30 and 31 are a series of times 32 which are grid conductors.
- the parallel conductor members 32 as connected in parallel by the contact pair 30 and 31 provide a plurality of intersecting points for each of the grid structures with respect to the cathode line.
- the advantage of such an arrangement has been fully explained and described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,742,345. If the grid structure of FIG. 3 is employed then the anode structure 16 will follow the grid structure. In this manner it is seen that the local anode 16 may consist of a plurality of parallel lines each of.which is associated with a grid line with each of the parallel lines being dimensioned and congruent with each of the associated grid lines.
- the unique flat panel display depicted in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 first assume that all the anode segments 16 or anode lines are connected in parallel. In this manner the operation is as follows.
- a negative high voltage to the remote anode 18 which for example is -200 volts.
- These biasing levels operate to ERASE the display and cause all the pigment to be transported to the surface of the grid and cathode. During a first HOLD mode, the excess pigment is brought to the remote anode 18.
- this first HOLD mode the anode 18 which is the remote anode is held at a positive high voltage which may be for example +200 volts.
- the local anode 16 is placed at a positive low voltage which is +15 volts and the grid and cathode are held at -12 volts and +15 volts respectively as indicated above for the full ERASE mode.
- This first HOLD mode operates to bring the excess pigment to the remote anode as described above. As one can ascertain, the brightness of the display between HOLD and ERASE differs as described above.
- a second HOLD mode anode voltage 18 is biased at a positive low voltage which is +15 volts while the anode 16 is placed at the same positive low voltage which is +15 volts.
- the grid and cathode again are at the same polarities as the full ERASE mode or as in the first HOLD mode as indicated above.
- this second HOLD as one can ascertain, since anodes 18 and 16 are at the same potential, all the excess pigment is held mainly at anode 18 with very little pigment being held at anode 16.
- the anode 18 is held at a low voltage as +15 volts.
- Anode 16 is also held at the same positive low voltage.
- the grid and cathodes will enable a WRITE when a grid line is at a high condition with respect to a cathode line which is at a low condition. When both the grid and cathodes are both high, there will be no writing. In a similar manner if grid and cathodes are both low, there is no writing; or if the grid is low and cathode is high, there is no writing.
- the anode 18 is held at a low positive voltage +15.
- the anode lines 16 are held at approximately ground potential or zero.
- the selective ERASE may be performed by scanning the entire panel or by pointing and scanning only certain character lines.
- the selective ERASE permits correction of a character or characters, blinking of a character or characters and allows access to any pixel in the entire display.
- An insulator is applied to the metal layer and a thin layer of another metal (metal 2) is then applied to the insulator.
- This other metal may be nickel, aluminum, or some other metal.
- a layer of photoresist is applied to the second metal layer and is patterned in the usual way utilizing the grid mask.
- the metal layer 2 is then etched using a suitable etching solution depending upon the properties of the metal.
- the insulating layer between the first metal layer and the second metal layer is plasma etched. Using a suitable etching solution, the metal layer is etched. It is indicated that the first metal layer and the second metal layer are selected such that the etching solution for the first metal layer does not effect the second metal layer. There are many solutions which will etch certain materials while not etching others.
- the insulating layer between metal layer 1 and the cathode is next plasma etched.
- the metal in the chip area is etched leaving only the insulator between metal layer 1 and metal layer 2 and the insulator between metal layer 1 and the cathode.
- Prior to assembly a thin film of S i O 2 is deposited on the entire surface except for the cathode and grid chip areas.
- the display parts comprising the structure indicated in FIG. 2 are assembled using appropriate spacers.
- the insulator on the surface of the first metal layer is removed and the flat panel is ready to receive the chips.
- the prior art panels, including the chips of the panel are further described in conjunction with the prior art patents.
- the difference between the structure here and those of the prior art is the inclusion of an additional and different anode structure which is a series of lines congruent with and insulated from the grid lines.
- the second anode line structure can have all lines connected together at both top and bottom as described above or each of the anode lines can be separately addressed.
- the anode is for example fabricated from aluminum with the grid being fabricated from chrome. In this manner one can utilize different etchants to form the local anode structure 16 as compared to the typical grid structure 14 and hence obtain all the benefits of the above-noted structure.
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